Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Your truly sent this to the editor of Le Monde. The lovely newspaper came out on Monday, with an article suggesting that cartoonist in teh US are under pressure from teh Bush Administration to conform to the government's ideas! Preposterous! Outrageous!
" Dear Editor, You must be nuts... the problem with you Euro-hypocrites, is that your political culture is so far behind the US, that it is impossible for you to conceive of a life in which your government has nothing to say about your opinions..... ever. You are convinced that the US is a primitive country, made up of primitive people, of which President Bush is most probably one of the most primitive specimens ( I might even agree with that particular thought myself ). However you are so blinded by your own delusions of " cultural supremacy ' to have noticed that Continental Europe's day had come and gone by the first 30 years of the 20th century. Perhaps, my Euro friends, you should learn to learn, instead of thinking that the whole world thinks the way you do, or acts the way you do.
America has learned so much from France and European culture in general, it is now time for you to be humble enough to understand that in matters of freedom, liberty and democracy you can only follow those who have a better and older culture than yours.
Dominance, colonialism and rape of natural resources were the name of the game when you were governing the order for things and still are today for those poor people who fall under your sphere of influence ( Ivory Coast or Rwanda anybody? ).In case you hadn't noticed, liberty, democracy and freedom are the name of the game today ( the abundance of or the lack thereof )......."
" Dear Editor, You must be nuts... the problem with you Euro-hypocrites, is that your political culture is so far behind the US, that it is impossible for you to conceive of a life in which your government has nothing to say about your opinions..... ever. You are convinced that the US is a primitive country, made up of primitive people, of which President Bush is most probably one of the most primitive specimens ( I might even agree with that particular thought myself ). However you are so blinded by your own delusions of " cultural supremacy ' to have noticed that Continental Europe's day had come and gone by the first 30 years of the 20th century. Perhaps, my Euro friends, you should learn to learn, instead of thinking that the whole world thinks the way you do, or acts the way you do.
America has learned so much from France and European culture in general, it is now time for you to be humble enough to understand that in matters of freedom, liberty and democracy you can only follow those who have a better and older culture than yours.
Dominance, colonialism and rape of natural resources were the name of the game when you were governing the order for things and still are today for those poor people who fall under your sphere of influence ( Ivory Coast or Rwanda anybody? ).In case you hadn't noticed, liberty, democracy and freedom are the name of the game today ( the abundance of or the lack thereof )......."
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